Ice-cream-cone filler.



' w. EICHELBERGER & w. w. BREWER.

ICE .CREAM CONE FILLER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 26, 19.1.5.

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WILLIAM EICHELIBERGER AND WALTER W. BREWER, OF I'IERCE, WEST VIRGINIA.

ICE-CREAM-CONE FILLER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Application filed November 26, 1915. Serial No. 63,488.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM EIOHEL- BERGER and WALTER W. BREWER, citizens of the United States, and residents of Pierce, in thecounty of Tucker and State of .West Virginia,-have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ice-Cream-Cone Fillers, of which the following is a specification. Q v

Our invention relates to the vending of ice cream, particularly in cones, and the object thereof is to provide a device which Wlll remove a predetermined quantity of ice cream from a can, mold the same into-form to fit a cone, and deliver the same to the cone Without the necessity for the hands of the operator being brought into contact with the ice cream.

Our invention is fully described in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which likecharacters refer to like parts in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a side View of the lnventlon open, partly in section; Fig. 2 is a similar.

[View thereof closed; and Fig. 3 is an edge view thereof closed.

In the drawings forming a part of this application we have shown tong-like levers 4 and 5 pivotally connected at 6, the former being provided with a book 7 at its upper end and the latter with a handle 8.

The levers 4 and-5 are pivoted at 9 and 10 to two arms 11 and 12 in turn pivotally connected at 13 to each other and to two spoon shaped members 14 and 15 at 16 and 17, respectively, and which members are hinged together at 18, these members jointly forming the mold for the ice cream and having an interior configuration corresponding to I the spoon members 14 and 15, this end shoulder 22 and being screw-threaded at thethereof being reduced in size to form a reduced portion to receive a nut 23-, and we may form a part of this reduced ortion angular in cross section if desired. on this reduced portion is a flat spring 24 the arms of which \bear against t e inner surfaces of the respective members 14 and 15 and tend to holdthem in open position arried as shown in Fig. 1, and the above noted angular formation of the reduced portion of the rod 20, if provided, insures the spring 24 against any movement with respect to the rod, but this result may be accomplished by setting up the nut 23 tightly.

The lever 5 carries a rack bar 25 at its lower end enmeshed with the toothed portherebetween. The device is then removed from the ice cream can and arranged over a cone, after which the manual tension on the levers and 5 may be relieved to permit the sprlng 24 to force the spoon members apart, to deliver the molded portion of ice cream to the cone.

In both the closing and openin movements of the levers 4 and 5 the ro 20 has been rotated by the rack bar 25 and the spring 24 had thus been moved over the inner surface of the mold to scrape the ice cream therefrom and insure its delivery to the come without knocking or other efiort, this swinging movement of the spring be.- mgtiilned and being through only a part of a cue e.

It will thus be seen that the operator has I what we claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An ice cream cone filler, comprising a mold formed of a plurality of hinged spoon members, a spring within said mold for holding said members in 'open positions,

, ineans for manually closing said mold, and

meansfor revolving said spring to scrape theinner surfaces of said members;

2. An ice cream cone filler, comprising. a

mold formed of a plurality of hinged spoon members, arms pivoted thereto and to each other, levers pivoted to said arms and to each other, a spring for holding said members in open positions, and means actuated by said IBYGIS for revolving said spring to scrape the interior surfaces of said members.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM EICHELBERGER. WALTER W. BREWER.

Witnesses: I

F. S. ADAMS, D. J. HovAT'mm 

